thinking about the lynch’s false mirrors.
declan as a mirror to niall. a son made in his father’s image.
ronan as a mirror to niall. a father choosing to model a son after himself, after his brother.
matthew as a mirror to his brothers, to his father. ronan manifesting a kinder, softer mirror of declan’s face in a brother that would be better than either of them, for both of them.
ronan having to look at declan after niall’s death, seeing his father’s face, not just in the mirror, but in a brother that is not his father, not his idol.
declan having to look at ronan after niall’s death, seeing his father’s face, not just in the mirror, but in a brother all too like his father, dangerous and horrible and lovely.
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do u ever think about how niall lynch was a devilishly handsome son of a bitch who was impossible not to like, naturally commanded the attention of everyone in the room, told stories as easily as breathing, ruled over his own particular corner of the world, didn’t even seem real until you knew him, died facedown on a gravel driveway, and then do you ever think about gansey.
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he'd told himself his father was hateful, his mother invisible, the barns dreadful, the dreaming frightful. it had been the only way to bear losing it all.
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there's something about Kavinsky's name being Joseph ok
Joseph being the name of Jesus's earthly father, the man who raised him, the one who stepped in to fill the space god left behind
Niall, powerful but distant, absent, and unforthcoming
Kavinsky as the one to step in and teach Ronan about himself and what he (they) can do
not Niall, but Kavinsky
not god, but Joseph
mmmm just something about it idk
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shakespeare's 'henry IV' - part I, act III, scene 1
maggie stiefvater's 'the dream thieves'
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aurora and niall lynch at the barns
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“i’m so normal about the lynch brothers” i say as i SCREAM AND CRY ABOUT THIS FUCKING LINE
WHY DON’T WE TALK ABOUT THIS MORE !!!!????
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how do you give your son that you meticulously handcrafted every characteristic of a tree nut allergy
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i love the inheritances passed down in the lynch family. love of blondes. love of creation. love of dreams. love of hard-edged assholes who know pain too well. love of crime. love of trouble. love of the self. love of each other. love of cars. love of animals. love of trauma. love love love.
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